wideboy wrote:
aaaaaamazing!!

She was so awesome!
I did harbour doubts about her, and hadnt really listened to her stuff for a little while now.
And that farce with Ticketweb made me listen even less, lest it peed me off even more...

however, her singing was great, her voice powerful, and she had great presence, and she just looked wonderful - so much better - dare i say it - 'in the flesh'!! She really does!

it moved me to hear quite a few songs that i hadnt heard for years, and some of the new ones are cool too.

dont worry about going alone - plenty of people did, me too, but got chatting to other people real easy. Everyone was friendly.
In the end i did meet people i did know inside, but i had no idea that they were going.

They do aquick body search, missed my camera, but i only took one shot before quick as a 'flash', staff were in my face telling me i'll be kicked out if they see me with a phone or a camera again.
For the most part they have guys on the upper deck, watching and radioing to the guys on the ground floor, and either directing or marking people taking photos.
People then get told not to do it.
Torches are flashed at people taking photos.

i saw other iphone people taking photos but unless youre lucky, or with proper gear, the photos were nearly always quite bad.
[i shoot gigs properly so i know the difference the right gear can make]

its tight in there, but thats the environment i like. i hate stadium shows.
a beer was 3.80.

one girl [?] passed out and was hauled to the rear.

Hikki said she liked London, and attempted a Dick Van (censored) impression [ie. really bad cockney accent], talked about how she had been there before.
She spoke 60/40 towards English - the crowd was morelike 70/30 to Japanese/asian, which was impressive.
Lots of tall english guys blocking the view of hoards of shorter Japanese/asians!

I didnt see any proper photographers - did anyone see any? Were they on the upper deck?

Anyway, Hikki, in summary was highly impressive, and quite wonderful!

I'm going to have to dig out my old collection and order some new ones...

5 stars ***** !!!

edit:
Dick Van (censored) is censored?! lol
i meant the guy who is the cockney chimney sweep in Mary Poppins!!
A benchmark for stereotypical 'cockney' impressions of Londoners!

Unless youre early, getting to the front is nigh on impossible.

Hikki wore a simple black dress, little straps, ruffled bottom to it - couldnt really see her legs or feet, but reckoned her legs were bare.
She had a loose silvery top over the top of the black dress, that occasionally slipped down one shoulder.
Hair was loosely styled to one side, shoulder length.
bracelets i think.
when she played her little keyboard, she put a cloth in front of it so people 'cant see up her skirt'...

i think one of the stage crew [val?] accidently wobbled the mic stand so it hit her in the mouth early on.
She said that the venue was smaller than she thought it would be, and said she kept bumping into the keyboards, and tried not tripping up over guitar pedals.
[which she feared would be on youtube if she did]

She likes Paris too.